Start menu search is underappreciated

I'm running Windows
2008 on my Fujitsu S7220, using it to test various blog and CMS
solutions, and it's a great OS. As much as I love
XP, I'm really impressed with a lot of the UI improvements that
went into Vista (which flowed into 2008 and is improved even more
in Windows 7). I don't hear a ton of talk about it, and I get
the feeling that a lot of people who grumble about Vista (Becky!)
just haven't taken the time to learn their new surroundings.
One thing I didn't realize I use all the time was the searchable
start menu. No more sorting your start menu to make things
easier to find-it's a built-in quick launch that doesn't
suck. Luckily, for people running XP, there's hope.
LifeHacker featured a download called ViStart (clever…),
which gives XP users the useful bits without needing to
upgrade. I'm going to slipstream this onto my next XP
image-that's still 90% of all the installations I do at work.
Most of the Vista-on-XP programs out there are kinda hokey and just
for show, but this one brings some really useful functionality back
to the most widely used desktop OS.

This entry was written by Andrew,
posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009
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